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CLEVELAND -- A Vatican congregation has overturned the closing of 13 parishes in the Diocese of Cleveland and said the churches must be restored for worship, a person involved with the cases said.
The ruling reverses some of the closings ordered by Bishop Richard G. Lennon since 2009 under a diocesan-wide reconfiguration plan.
The Congregation for Clergy's ruling in support of parishioners who appealed the closings is a rare instance, explained Peter Borre, a leader with the Council of Parishes in Boston, who has been advising parish groups nationwide on their appeals.
Lennon can appeal the rulings to the Apostolic Signature, the Vatican's highest court.
The decrees have not been made public. However, Borre told Catholic News Service on Thursday they cited Canon 515 and the procedural and substantive steps that were not followed under it.
Canon 515 governs the responsibilities of a bishop regarding the opening or closing of a parish.
Borre said he was able to read one of the congregation's documents and had others read to him by people familiar with the cases. In each decree, he said, the language was identical with only the name of the appealing parish changing.
The group Endangered Catholics, which has been working to reverse the closings since 2009, called a news conference for Thursday afternoon to release a copy of one of the decrees and discuss their hopes for reopening parishes as soon as possible.
A diocesan spokesman said the documents from the congregation had not been received as of Thursday morning.
Robert Tayek, director of media and public relations, told Catholic News Service he mistakenly believed that a package with the decrees had arrived at diocesan offices Wednesday. They were not in that package, he said.
"The Diocese of Cleveland is awaiting official word from the Vatican concerning any decrees," Tayek said, reading from a prepared statement. "We first must see the official documents in order to review them and understand what exactly is being said; only then can a response be determined."
The Vatican's decision was met with jubilation, prayers of thanksgiving and song as parishioners gathered to celebrate outside of several of the closed churches in the hours after they learned of the rulings Wednesday.
"We're as stunned as anybody," said Bob Kloos, a leader in the group Endangered Catholics and a member of the Community of St. Peter, which was formed by parishioners of the closed St. Peter Church who created a nonprofit corporation to stay together as a Catholic worship community and continue various ministries in Cleveland's inner city.
Fr. Robert Marrone joined the effort and continues as the community's pastor despite a warning of excommunication from Lennon.
"We are overjoyed," Kloos said. "We are looking forward to working collaboratively and in mutual respect with the bishop to reopen these parishes."
He said that he hopes the ruling will help lift "the pall that's been afflicting the diocese" since the closings were announced.
Nancy McGrath, co-chair of Code Purple, a church reform group in Akron, said the diocese is faced with rebuilding parish communities to ensure they remain vibrant and financially stable.
"I think the people from Cleveland made their case very carefully and very clearly that these churches never had to close," McGrath said.
"The important point now is for all 13 to work together to help each other, to share ideas, and to share resources," she said.
The parishes were among 27 closed under a reconfiguration plan announced by Lennon in 2009. Another 41 were merged to form 18 new parishes. Most were in urban areas and many were founded to serve European immigrants.
The plan was devised after a years-long process that saw parishioners clustered together to discuss how to maintain ministries in designated areas and ultimately suggested to Bishop Lennon which parishes might close. In some cases, Lennon followed the recommendations; in others he decided to close some parishes that were not targeted for closing by the cluster groups, upsetting many involved in the process.
Some closures met were met with sit-ins and prayer vigils. At St. Casimir Parish, a church serving the Polish community on Cleveland's east side, parishioners have gathered outside every Sunday to pray and read Scripture since November 2009.
Lennon has 60 days to appeal the congregation's decisions to the Apostolic Signature once he receives the decrees. He can also file a motion with the Congregation for Clergy for reconsideration.


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One of the central story threads of the film Lincoln, which failed to win the best picture Oscar last night (I was a bit heartbroken), is the presence of Confederate negotiators, who wish to strike a bargain and end the Civil War. Knowing that Congress would never pass the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery if there was a chance to negotiate an end to the war, Lincoln delays the negotiating party's entry into Washington and even denies their presence to satisfy certain Congressmen.
The bit of history is worth remembering, because it highlights the crucial role negotiators have often played in war. Even the possibility of a party that may sue for peace could be enough to change the political calculus of a conflict. In last week's Walking Dead episode, The Governor started a war, not between two nation-states, but between two groups of apocalypse survivors. But the political implications are similar, and even though last night's episode was an incredible slow burner, there were several developments that could drastically change our story in the coming weeks.
First, there's Andrea, our would-be negotiator who travels the perilous route to the prison with an armless, jawless walker to gauge Rick's intentions. It's easy to forget, given all that's happened, that Andrea hasn't seen most of these folks since the battle of Greene Farm. Her questions (Where is Shane? among them) remind us just how long she's been separated from her old crew.
While very little came from her meeting with Rick and Co., it's important to think about the motivations of each character. The Governor let her go, possibly to test her loyalty; Andrea herself wants to see peace between the factions, both because of her blinding infatuation with The Governor and her affinity for the ordinary people of Woodbury. Rick, to his credit, coming out of his Lori-seeing stupor (a running gun battle tends to do that) sees right through any peace overture and sends Andrea packing, having rejected any idea of peace between the two factions.
That may have been where we left the whole situation if not for the oh-so fortuitous meeting in the woods where Tyrese and his small group stumble upon Andrea preparing her walker companion for travel. Milton leads them back to Woodbury where, surprise, they let it slip that they've been inside the prison and can help The Governor and his militia infiltrate the catacombs. It's not that we didn't see this coming (we did), predicting that Rick's penchant for tossing strangers back into the wild would one day come back to bite him in the ass. How great would it be to have Tyrese and his crew on their side instead of leading The Governor's forces in a clandestine infiltration of the prison?
In the end, it may be that Rick gets what he deserves with this coming battle and learns to trust people again. Don't count on it, but it's a possibility. As for the episode's title, we could debate (and please do in the comments below) which character the writers are referring to when they allude to the biblical story of Judas. In the Christian Gospels, Judas Iscariot was one of Jesus's most trusted apostles—ultimately betraying him with a kiss. Since loyalties have shifted over time in our story, it's hard to know sometimes who's being betrayed and who's being used and who basically had it coming. Over the next few weeks, we should know for sure.
Zombie Kill Report: Single digits (only one, unless I missed a couple). Last week saw dozens upon dozens of Walker-slayings during the battle at the prison and the Dixon boys' fight on the bridge. The award for most creative (and disgusting) kill of last week went to Daryl for his clever and splattering use of the back door of a station wagon. Last night's episode was light on the walker kills, but Andrea gets extra credit for emulating Michonne's armless, jawless zombie-pet force field. I don't care if he was from a zombie, when the guy bit down on the rock it was a squishy, cringe-inducing sight.
Most potential, biggest-miss scene: Andrea' aborted assassination attempt of The Governor. I don't think anyone actually thought she'd go through with it–as the title says, she ain't Judas–but Andrea clearly struggled with the decision. She had to weigh her allegiance to her old group, her emerging leadership in Woodbury and her feelings for The Governor. What we got was an almost comical shot of a naked Andrea standing over the sleeping Governor holding the knife straight out, ensuring that if he awoke she'd be toast. He didn't. We weren't surprised.
The end of innocence: One of the long-running themes of TWD has been the effect on the children of living in a post-apocalyptic world. We've seen Carl grow up from a whiny kid into a confident adolescent, and even his father now acknowledges he's ready to step up and take on some responsibilities. But is this a good thing? While The Governor was raising his militia, he ordered that anyone capable would holster a weapon and man a post. When asked if that included the town's young teenagers, he replies, "Adolescence is 20th century invention." The chaotic, survival of the fittest life the survivors must navigate has mitigated things like childhoods and safe havens. It'll be interesting to see what effect that has on kids like Carl in the future.


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I would definitely agree for a Bohemian Pilsner, a little less for a German Pils, but not so much for a Dortmunder and a Munich Helles should really not have any hop aroma.Disclaimer: As far as I have read.....Dave
I've been interested in this subject for awhile, as my tastes have definitely gravitated toward German lagers over the years.
Ron Price brewed a German pils that was one of the best lagers I've had, including commerical examples (freshness helps). Maybe we can coerce him into posting that recipe when he gets back from the NHC. The German restaurant down the road from my house has Bitburger pils on tap and it is a world of difference from what I've had in bottles.
I would think that process would be bottom of the list, but I'm still finding that for myself.


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{ "type": "add"
, "id":"285947086237736960"
, "version" : 1
, "lang":"en"
,"fields": {
"id" : "285947086237736960"
, "created_at":"2013-01-01"
, "content":"bla bla blah LOL ROFL"
}, ...
The nested "fields" attribute comes from a db table called "tweets". Both id's come from the same table. However, type, version, lang are always the same. I've looked at the suggestions from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13227142/postgresql-9-2-row-to-json-with-nested-joins, which mentions using aliased subquery expressions. That didn't work at all, I still get the f1, f2, etc. The suggestions from Set names to attributes when creating JSON with row_to_json works for a single level, but I can't get it to work for the nested "fields" attribute.
As far as I can tell, this will only work with a with statement similar to:
with tweets(type, id) as (
select 'add' as type, tweets.id from tweets
) select row_to_json(tweets) from tweets;
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Chapter XI:
Assaulting The Second Shuri Defense Ring
The forward surge of the American lines on 24 April marked the fall of the first Shuri defense ring everywhere but on the extreme right, in the Item Pocket area. The enemy had withdrawn to the next ring of prepared positions of the Shuri defense zone and was ready to repeat the process of making the invader pay for every foot of ground.
On 24 April General Hodge radioed his division commanders that "operations today indicate enemy withdrawn his forces from the strong positions he has fought so desperately to hold," and ordered aggressive patrolling to determine the new enemy dispositions. At 1100 of the same day he directed the division commanders to regroup their forces and improve their positions by aggressive action, seizing all advantageous ground to their front and pushing in enemy outposts. They were to prepare for a general attack at 0600, 26 April.
While the attack against the second ring of Shuri defenses was under way, there was a major regrouping of the weary American forces at the end of April everywhere on the line except on the 7th Division front. The 27th Division on the west was relieved by the 1st Marine Division, and the 96th Division in the center of the line was relieved by the 77th. These changes were completed by 30 April. The 7th Division was to remain on the line until relieved by the 96th after its 10-day rest.
By the end of April a shift of troops in the line had become necessary. The Japanese position was still strong and there was no indication that it would soon be reduced. The 96th Division, which had gone into Okinawa understrength, had suffered very heavy casualties. It needed a rest and an opportunity to assimilate its replacements; on the other hand, the 77th was relatively fresh, although it had fought in the Kerama Retto and on Ie Shima. The 27th Division had not been intended for combat duty on Okinawa but had been loaned temporarily to XXIV Corps when it became evident that the 7th and 96th could not
ASA RIVER AREA, where marines drove south. (Photo taken 10 July 1945.)
break through the Shuri defenses alone. After the cancellation in the middle of April of Phase III for the Okinawa campaign, the conquest of Miyako, the III Amphibious Corps became available to General Buckner for use on the southern front. The 1st Marine Division in the north was to go south first since it was closer to the Shuri line and could be moved into position more quickly than the 6th Marine Division.
Despite this redisposition, the use of fresh troops, and some of the most intensive efforts that the campaign had yet seen, the Americans fought for an entire week without making any significant gain except in the center of the front. In large measure their failure was due to the difficulty of appraising correctly the nature of the interlocking Japanese defenses that they now faced.
Stalemate on the West Coast
On the west coast, in the 27th Division zone, the Item Pocket fighting was practically over by 27 April. The 165th Infantry spent the remaining days of the month patrolling the Kuwan Inlet south of Machinato airfield. On the division left, the 105th Infantry regrouped after the battles of the Pinnacles, pushed to the southern edge of Nakama on 26 April, organized a line, and held there until relieved on 1 May. In the division center the 2d Battalion, 106th Infantry, engaged in hard fighting on 27-28 April around Yafusu in an effort to straighten the line. But the division, overextended and all but exhausted, made no major offensive effort during the last days of April.
On 30 April the 1st Marines of the 1st Marine Division relieved the 165th Infantry on the west coast, and the next day the 5th Marines of the same division completed the relief of that part of the line held by the 105th and 106th Infantry. Maj. Gen. Pedro A. del Valle, commanding general of the 1st Marine Division, which had been attached to XXIV Army Corps, assumed responsibility for the former 27th Division zone of action at 1400, 1 May
The enemy also reinforced his line in this area. On 26 April General Ushijima ordered the
44th Independent Mixed Brigade
to take a position west of Shuri and north of Naha at the Asa River, behind the remnants of the
62d Division
. Thus the
62d Division
would be supported if a break-through threatened on the west coast.
Asa River Battle
The initial objective of the 1st Marine Division was the north bank of the Asa River. Immediately in front of the division, between it and the Asa River, was a series of hills and ridges. On this high ground the Japanese had prepared defensive positions in depth which were to occupy the Marines well into May. On 30 April, and again on 1 May, while the 5th Marines were moving into the line, the 1st Marines tried to push south, but on each day it was repulsed with considerable loss of life; on 1 May one company alone suffered twenty-four casualties.
The 2d of May was wet and chilly, but the marines, two assault regiments abreast, pressed the attack. On the left, next to the 77th Division, the 5th Marines met stubborn resistance. Again, for the third day, the 1st Marines met trouble trying to cross the draw south of Nakanishi village to reach the Jichaku ridge mass. Marines of Company B, one at a time, attempted to cross over a blown bridge. Three of the first five men were hit in the attempt. One man negotiated the top of the south bank. The next three men to follow him were shot in the head. After this bloody reception the company hugged the southern bank of the draw until 1300, when it was ordered to withdraw. In the confusion of the withdrawal, a large number of men were left behind. Eighteen men, five of them wounded, who had not known of the withdrawal order were brought back after dark.
Advance Along the Coast
Farther to the west along the coast, Company F moved forward under fire along Machinato airstrip and dug in after dark by the light of flares. On the regimental left (east), Companies L and K made limited advances but developed gaps of as much as 200 yards between platoons. Weapons jammed with mud, and the situation quickly became precarious. At 1800 the men began to withdraw behind a white phosphorus grenade screen. That night Company K was in an unenviable position, with an exposed left flank. Practically all its weapons were unusable because of mud in the mechanisms. The perimeter defense had only, in addition to grenades, two rifles and one BAR that would work. In repelling a counterattack which struck it that night at 0200, Company K used rifles as clubs. During the day and night Company K suffered forty-two casualties. By 2 May the 1st Marine Division had lost 54 men killed, 233 wounded, and ii missing-total casualties of 298.
The fighting on 3 May followed closely the pattern of the previous days. The marines continued to advance along the coastal flats. However, it was soon realized that if the advance continued the troops would be flanked by automatic and mortar fire from the finger ridges to the east. It became clear that enemy positions in the high ground eastward from the coast would have to be destroyed before any general advance was possible. Accordingly, after 3 May, the direction and plan of attack pivoted to the southeast toward this commanding ground.
The 7th Division at Kochi Ridge
On the eastern side of the Corps line, the 7th Division, although not realizing this immediately, faced a new enemy combat unit. On 23 April the
22d Regiment
. of the
24th Division
took over the eastern part of the Shuri defense zone. At last the
62d Division
, which for three weeks had borne the brunt of the American attack, was to have help. It was time, for the
was but a remnant of its former self. The boundary between the
24th Division
and the
62d Division
, which now was assembled in the western half of the line, ran generally from Shuri Castle north to the front lines west of Kochi and Tanabaru. The Ginowan Shuri road (Route 5) marked roughly the boundary between the two major units of the Japanese
32d Army
. The change in command along the front was effective at 1100, 23 April. The order directing the new deployment of
24th Division
troops stated that "in particular, liaison forces with- the
62d Division
near Kochi, must be strongly protected." The front lines of the
22d Regiment
extended from the east coast northwestward through the villages of Gaja, Kuhazu, Onaga, and Kochi. The rest of the
24th Division
was in reserve northeast of Shuri or in the Oroku area. The
22d Regiment
, fresh and never before in combat except for small groups that had participated in the abortive counterattack of 13 April, faced the 7th Division at Kochi and eastward to the sea.
Directly south of Hill 178, two miles away, stood dominant Conical Hill, guarding the coastal passage. Hill 178 and Conical sent long ridges downward toward each other which terminated, 800 yards short of meeting, in a low, flat area, an inward bulge of the coastal flat which reached at this point as far as
where the 96th and 77th Divisions attacked vital Japanese positions. Attempting to reach Kochi through Onaga, south of Skyline Ridge, these tanks (below) were lost 29 April when the American lead tank blocked the road forward.
Onaga. A half mile west of Onaga was the village of Kochi. Between these two villages was high ground, the northern part of which was known as Horseshoe Ridge, and the 500-yard-long southern arm as Kochi Ridge. Beyond Kochi Ridge the ground rose in ever higher broken ridges and hills southwestwardly toward Shuri.
(See Map No. XXIX.)
To the southwest of Kochi Ridge was Zebra Hill, a long, high stretch of ground which climbed toward the still higher ground north of Shuri. A deep road cut separated the lower extremities of Kochi Ridge and Zebra. Opposite the road cut on the east, the Onaga side, were How and Item Hills, both of them flanking this important area. On the other side (west) of Kochi Ridge, and paralleling it, was Hill 138. This high ground surrounding Kochi Ridge on three sides was held by the Japanese. From these points the enemy had observation of the Kochi area, and from the same circle of high ground mortars and machine guns could concentrate their fire on Kochi Ridge, which was also a well-organized strong point.
The 17th Infantry Attacks Kochi Ridge
On 25 April the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry, against surprisingly little resistance, advanced 600 yards across the flat ground on the 7th Division right (west) to occupy the slope of Horseshoe Ridge. The next day the 1st Battalion tried to advance along the west side of Kochi Ridge, and the 2d Battalion along the east side. As soon as this effort began, the reverse-slope fighting technique of the Japanese came into play, and prearranged mortar and machine-gun fire from surrounding heights swept over the area. The attack was stopped and all the troops fell back to their former positions except one platoon of Company G that dug in on the east side of the ridge for a precarious foothold. Neither battalion had observation of the other's movements; neither could gain possession of the crest of the ridge; each fought essentially an isolated action on its own side of the ridge. By the evening of 26 April, it was evident that the 17th Infantry had come up solidly against the Japanese manning the Kochi sector of the line. The next day, a rainy, muddy day, efforts to establish physical contact between the 1st and 2d Battalions failed. There was no gain but there were many casualties.
Before dawn of 28 April the 3d Battalion, 17th Infantry, relieved the 1st Battalion on the west side of Kochi Ridge and took up the attack under the command of Lt. Col. Lee Wallace. Colonel Wallace hoped to move men around Kochi Ridge into the cut between the ridge and Zebra, and then to take the
Kochi Ridge defenses in the rear and flank. He succeeded in getting Company K through Kochi to the cut, while Company L moved southward along the west slope. But once at the cut the company received a blast of machine-gun fire that killed four and wounded eight. Thereafter Company K kept under cover until it could work its way back. In the meantime Company L was unable to reach the crest.
The attack remained stalled on 29 April. Whenever any serious movement threatened, the Japanese concentrated the fire of from twelve to fourteen mortars on the endangered spot and denied it to the attackers. To add to the misfortunes of the men, twelve rounds of friendly 105-mm. artillery shells fell short, landing in the midst of Company G on the east side of Kochi Ridge. Five men were killed and eighteen wounded in one platoon, and an adjacent platoon was left with only twelve men. In addition to the killed and wounded, there were eighteen cases of concussion and shock. Company G now had only twenty-seven men left in the rifle platoons.
On the morning of 30 April, Company E took the place in the line formerly held by Company G and started forward. Suddenly, at 0845, it was hit by cross fire from about eight machine guns located on both flanks and to the front. This was followed by a mortar concentration. Losses were heavy. Twenty men were killed, and in one squad only two men were left. The wounded were helpless. Smoke placed over the men was blown away quickly by a brisk wind and offered almost no protection; even those not wounded were unable to withdraw, and relief parties could not come forward. Medical supplies were finally dropped by a cub plane from a height of fifty feet, in the face of small-arms fire. After dark most of the wounded were brought back .
Farther down the slope toward Onaga, Company I was struck by a Japanese counterattack of about 25 men at 1100, and 5 men were killed and 11 wounded. On the same day a carrier-based Corsair strafed behind the lines of the 17th Infantry, killing 6 and wounding 19 in a tragic blunder. Unquestionably, 30 April was a bad day for the 17th Infantry Regiment. Since 26 April the regiment had suffered more than 60 casualties from friendly fire.
While the 17th Infantry was trying vainly to find some way of taking Kochi Ridge, the 32d Infantry to its east was delayed in opening an attack by lack of success around Kochi. On 28 April an attack on the ridge southwest of Kuhazu put armored flame throwers into the village, but the infantry was stopped by heavy mortar concentrations. On the 29th, when tanks tried to reach Onaga from the coast, one of them hit a mine on a narrow road among the
rice paddies near Unaha and was knocked out, blocking the road. Three of the remaining four tanks turned over or threw their tracks and were lost in trying to turn around. The 32d Infantry was now trying to help the situation at Kochi by putting pressure on enemy positions to the southeast.
In a predawn attack on 30 April the 1st Battalion, 32d Infantry, successfully placed Company C on "Chimney Crag" and Company A in the "Roulette Wheel" on the ridge southwest of Kuhazu. Japanese in large numbers infiltrated behind the lines of these companies during the night and disrupted the relief of the 32d by the 184th, the completion of which was to take place before dawn of 1 May but was not accomplished until 1730 in the afternoon. In fighting its way back after being relieved in the line, the 1st Battalion, 32d Infantry, lost eleven men killed and twenty-two wounded.
That night, 1-2 May, a penetration was made by Company L, 184th Infantry, to Gaja Ridge just in front of Conical Hill. The advantage gained by this surprise move was lost at the end of the day when the men were withdrawn by company officers in direct violation of orders to hold the ground despite heavy casualties.
The Kochi Fight Continues
The fight at Kochi Ridge continued during the early days of May, the 17th Infantry making only negligible gains. On 1 May an armored bulldozer prepared an approach from the west to the top of Kochi Ridge between Knobs 1 and 2. An armored flame thrower moved up the approach and twice burned the area, but it was unable to reach the enemy strong points on the east side just over the crest. Onaga was mopped up during the day, but otherwise the infantry undertook no movement and remained in their dug-in positions, engaging in intermittent grenade duels.
At dawn of 2 May the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry, relieved the 2d Battalion on the east side of Kochi Ridge. It was a bad day, dark with mist and rain. Once again the flame thrower climbed to the saddle between Knobs 1 and 2 and spurted flame at enemy positions. Troops of the 1st Battalion then tried to take Knob 1 from the east side but failed, largely because of the heavy mortar fire which fell on them. During the night sniper positions were dug through the ridge by both battalions to give observation of areas that were hidden from view.
On 3 May, after a dawn artillery preparation, the 1st Battalion on the east and the 3d Battalion on the west side moved forward for a coordinated attack, which included a movement by Company C against How Hill on the east flank of Kochi Ridge. The entire effort came to nothing as the enemy soon halted all
forward movement by a mass of artillery and mortar fire, together with intense machine-gun and rifle fire. Grenades also were brought into play.
General Hodge, XXIV Corps commander, was disturbed by the continued failure of the 7th Division to make gains at Kochi Ridge. This failure was largely caused by the fact that limited knowledge of the mutually supporting Japanese positions hindered the launching of a coordinated divisional attack. Here, as in so many other sectors on Okinawa, the thorough integration of the Japanese defenses across the entire front brought combined fire power on one American regimental sector so great that the troops were denied the freedom of movement necessary to effective attack.
The Maeda Escarpment Barrier
The eastern end of the Urasoe-Mura Escarpment dominated the 96th Division front in the center of the line. It loomed directly ahead on the division right-a huge, forbidding, sheer cliff. The part of the escarpment lying within the 96th Division zone was called by the division the "Maeda Escarpment" after the village of Maeda, situated just over the crest on the reverse (south) slope. It was also called "Hacksaw Ridge" and the "Big Escarpment." The hill mass centering on the eastern end of the Urasoe-Mura Escarpment was often called Hill 196 in the official reports.
(See Map No. XXX.)
At its eastern end the escarpment terminates abruptly in a gigantic sentinel like monolith, called "Needle Rock." To the left (east) of Needle Rock a 200 yard saddle dips toward Hill 150, and 400 yards east of Hill 150 across another saddle is Hill 152, which marks the corner where the high ground of the Urasoe-Mura Escarpment formation turns at right angles to the southwest. The Ginowan-Shuri road (Route 5) bends around the corner of Hill 152 and then heads southwest toward Shuri, following the slope of the high ground on the west.
On 25 April the 96th Division was deployed with the 383d Regiment on the left, extending from the vicinity of Kochi to Hill 150; on the division right (west) the 381st Regiment stood in front of the escarpment. All of 25 April was spent by the 96th Division in studying this formidable terrain and in pounding known or suspected enemy positions in it. Thirty-six artillery concen-
trations, comprising 1,616 rounds, were fired in the zone of the 381st Infantry alone. Air strikes burned the escarpment with napalm bombs.
The Japanese Rampart Holds
On 26 April the attack against the Maeda Escarpment was launched. The infantry had little trouble in moving up the forward face, but when Company G of the 381st Infantry clambered to the top of the escarpment it suffered eighteen casualties in a matter of minutes. The Japanese on the Maeda Escarpment used to perfection their technique of reverse-slope defense. It was not difficult to occupy the forward slope of the ground, but the crest and the reverse slope were forbidden land. There the battle was to be fought.
Company F at Needle Rock tried to place men on the point of the escarpment by means of a human ladder, but the first three men to reach the top were killed at once by machine-gun fire. Just before dark Company E attempted to occupy some small knolls in Maeda, south of the Hill 150 saddle, but once the men were on the ground the knolls were swept by fire from about a dozen machine guns, which immediately killed two men and wounded six. Four hundred rounds of 81-mm. and 4.2-inch smoke shells were used in screening the withdrawal of the company in the gathering dusk.
Farther to the east there was, for a time, promise of considerable success. Elements of the 383d Regiment reached the crests of Hills 150 and 152 to find the ground below alive with Japanese. They estimated that they could see 600 of the enemy, who were unaccountably exposed. Machine gunners, BAR men, and individual riflemen had a field day. One BAR man was reported to have killed thirty Japanese. Tanks and armored flame throwers were able to move into the edge of Maeda and wreak havoc. Scores of the enemy were driven from caves by flame and then shot down as they fled.
This action on the crest and revere slopes of Hills 150 and 152, and the penetration of the armor to Maeda on 26 April, had immediate and violent repercussions at 32d Army headquarters. At 1600 in the afternoon General Ushijima issued a terse order:
The enemy with troops following tanks has been advancing into the southern and eastern sectors of Maeda since about 1300. The 62d Division will dispatch local units . . . attack the enemy advancing in the Maeda sector and expect to repulse him decisively.
At the same time, adjacent
24th Division
units were ordered to cooperate in this effort regardless of division boundary. Two hours later the Japanese command-
ing general issued another order: "The army will crush the enemy which has broken through near Maeda. The 24th Division will put its main strength northeast of Shuri this evening."
In these orders can be seen the underlying reason why in the ensuing four days the 96th Division gained only yards. The Japanese meant to hold at Maeda and they did.
Reverse Slope Classic
On the left of the escarpment, at the corner where the high ground turns sharply southwest, the 1st Battalion, 381st Infantry, and elements of the 383d Infantry on 27 April worked their way through the saddle between Hills 150 and 152, supported by tanks of the 763d Tank Battalion and armored flame throwers of the 713th. In a notable example of tank-infantry action they engaged in hours of carnage. The tanks and flame throwers burned and blasted enemy positions, flushing out of their underground positions hundreds of Japanese who were then cut down by the infantry or by the machine guns of the tanks. Tanks and infantry penetrated to the south edge of Maeda, but here the infantry was stopped by enemy fire. On top of the escarpment an all-out effort was made to reduce the large underground pillbox that separated Companies F and G, but the attempt failed.
many Japanese were killed southeast of the escarpment, no ground was won permanently this day except for very slight advances in Maeda near Hills 150 and 152.
On 28 April Company K of the 381st Infantry, in an effort to weaken resistance at the escarpment, moved through the 27th Division zone to the west and attacked southeast through Nakama toward the "Apartment House." This was a large concrete school building, used as barracks, which was a center of Japanese strength; it was situated south of the escarpment between the villages of Nakama and Maeda. In a half hour of hand-to-hand fighting, Company K was repulsed with heavy losses, and survivors withdrew under smoke. Company K was now down to twenty-four electives. Because both were greatly reduced in numbers, Companies K and 1, 381st Infantry, were combined into one company which had a consolidated strength of only 70 men, 4 machine gunners from the heavy weapons company, and 1 artillery observer.
During the early morning of 29 April, Japanese counterattacks were common across the entire 96th Division front. At 0515 the 2d Battalion, 383d Infantry, was attacked heavily by enemy armed with grenades and spears. One platoon of
MAEDA ESCARPMENT viewed from east end of Kakazu Ridge.
marked the battle for the escarpment. An armored flame thrower of the 713th Tank Battalion, protected by infantry against enemy satchel-charge attacks, sprays flame over a knob on the crest of the escarpment
included the Apartment House and a cave-tunnel-pillow network. The Apartment House barracks area (above), just east of Nakama, was captured 5 May as the 307th Infantry, 77th Division, cleaned out reverse slope of Maeda Escarpment. Demolitions played a large part in capture of the maze of caves, tunnels, and pillboxes some 200 feet from the east of the escarpment. Great sections of the hilltop were blasted away (below), blocking cave entrances in the escarpment's face.
Company G was reduced from 30 to 9 men in this fight. In repulsing two counterattacks, the 383d Infantry killed approximately 265 Japanese.
Later in the day tanks and armored flame throwers spearheaded the action, during which they killed more than 200 of the enemy.
The left (east) flank of the division on 29 April surged ahead to thrust a salient closer to Shuri than any other point of the Corps line. The crest of Hill 138 was seized again by Company L of the 383d Infantry in furious close combat. One machine-gun position on the crest was destroyed in banzai fashion by Pfc. Gabriel Chavez, who rushed it with a grenade in his hand and took five Japanese and himself to death in the grenade explosion. Tanks worked into position near the top of Hill 138 and engaged in duels with enemy 47-mm. antitank guns to the south; for the first time in the month-old Okinawa battle direct fire was placed in Shuri, a little over a mile to the southwest.
On 29 April the 307th Infantry of the 77th Division took over the Maeda Escarpment part of the line from the 381st Infantry, and the next morning the 306th relieved the 383d Infantry on the 96th Division left. At noon on 30 April, General Bruce, Commanding General of the 77th Division, assumed responsibility for the former 96th Division zone of action on the Corps front. The end of April also witnessed a regrouping among the Japanese units on the line. In response to the urgent orders of the Japanese commander on 26 April, when the Maeda sector was threatened, the
32d Regiment
of the
24th Division
hurried northward to the Maeda sector but apparently did not take over front-line duty until 28 April. It then went into the middle sector between the
22d Regiment
of the
24th Division
on the east and the badly mauled
62d Division
, which was now occupying the western third of the front.
By the time it was relieved, the 381st had been reduced to about 40 percent combat efficiency and had suffered 1,021 casualties, 536 of them in the Maeda Escarpment fighting of the past four days. Some platoons were down to five or six men.
Many of the men were so exhausted that they did not have the energy to carry their equipment down the slope to the road below where trucks were waiting to take them to the rear.
Demolition Battle
When the 307th Infantry moved into the line on 29 April, it found itself on the flat top of an escarpment which at its eastern end at the Needle Rock was not more than two feet wide. From this point westward the escarpment crest gradually widened until it was from 200 to 150 feet across. The reverse slope dropped abruptly, but its height was not as great as that of the northern face. It was on this reverse (southern) slope of the escarpment that the Japanese had their intricate network of caves and tunnels connecting with pillboxes on top of the escarpment. The nature of this underground fortress is illustrated by an incident of 2 May. On that day a tank fired six phosphorus shells into a cave and within fifteen minutes observers saw smoke emerging from more than thirty other hidden openings along the slope.
There were innumerable attacks and counterattacks, grenade duels, satchel-chargings of dugouts and caves, horrifying night encounters, and many little strategems used by both sides to win advantages in the hand-to-hand demolition battle of the Maeda Escarpment.-Air strikes, employing both demolition and napalm bombs, were made almost daily against the escarpment positions. Tanks and armored flame throwers worked against the southeastern slope. Yet the top of the escarpment, in the words of the men who fought there, was "all hell rolled into one." It took Lt. Col. Gerald D. Cooney's 1st Battalion, 307th Infantry, on the left side of the line, five days to gain control of Needle Rock. Men of the battalion were driven from Needle Rock and the top of the escarpment nine times before they held them for good.
During the night of 30 April-1 May, the 1st Battalion, 307th, brought up to the escarpment four 50-foot ladders and five cargo nets, the latter borrowed from the Navy. On 1 May Company A troops mounted the ladders at the eastern end of the escarpment, but every man who stood up was killed or wounded. Farther to the west, however, Company B, using the cargo nets, had two platoons on the edge of the escarpment by nightfall. About midnight Japanese counterattacked in this area and drove the men off the escarpment.
On the division right the 3d Battalion, 307th Infantry, on 1 May moved through the 27th Division zone behind the escarpment to Nakama village, from where it attacked eastward toward the Apartment House barracks area. During this action a Japanese shell exploded an ammunition dump in Nakama, killing
five men and disrupting ammunition supply for hours. On 2 May, Companies A and B placed men hack on the edge of the escarpment but made no real gain. Machine-gun fire was so intense that one man was decapitated. During 3 May the 1st Battalion, 307th Infantry, fought a desperate grenade battle to win the top of part of the escarpment. The Japanese showered the top with grenades and knee mortars from the reverse slope and with 81-mm. mortar fire from a distance. Men came back across the narrow top of the escarpment to the north side, swearing and crying, saying they would not go back into the fight. "Yet," observed one platoon leader, "in five minutes' time those men would go back there tossing grenades as fast as they could pull the pins."
Maeda Escarpment Bastion Falls
The fighting was especially fierce on top the escarpment on 4 May. Colonel Cooney's 1st Battalion successfully executed a complicated demolition assault on the big cave-tunnel-pillbox network about 200 feet west of the eastern end of the escarpment. The battalion then held the newly won ground against repeated counterattacks from the southern side. It was estimated that 600 enemy were killed by the 307th Infantry in the fighting at the escarpment on 4 May. Slowly, on 5 May, the reverse slope was taken and caves blasted and closed. On the night of 5-6 May the Japanese staged several counterattacks in an effort to win back the escarpment. An especially severe attack struck the 3d Battalion, 307th Infantry, on the regimental right. In repelling it the 3d Battalion killed 250 enemy troops, largely in hand-to-hand fighting. During 6 May all battalions of the 307th Infantry advanced southward to the slopes of Hill 187. The battle of the escarpment was over.
One of the most remarkable incidents of the battle for the Maeda Escarpment was the performance of Pfc. Desmond T. Doss, a medical aid man attached to Company B, 307th Infantry. Doss was a Seventh Day Adventist and would not touch a gun, but time after time he remained on top of the escarpment after the others had been driven off, lowering the wounded over the side in a rope litter. He went repeatedly to within a few yards of caves to administer first aid to men who had been cut down trying to assault the positions, and then carried these men to safety under the very guns of the enemy. For his valor Doss later received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The losses in the escarpment battle had been heavy. In the 1st Battalion, 307th Infantry, no less than eight company commanders were wounded in one
36-hour period. It had gone up on the escarpment on 29 April with a strength of about 800 men; it came down on 7 May with 324. The 77th Division estimated that it had killed upwards of 3,000 Japanese in the 7-day battle for the escarpment.
While at the Maeda Escarpment and in a few other sectors the American attack continued through the first week of May, yet, in general, this attack was brought to an unexpected pause after 3 May. (SeeMapNo.XXXI.) On 4May the enemy launched a surprise counteroffensive by which he hoped to wrest back from the invaders all that they had so painfully gained. For a time most American troops had all they could do to hold their own.
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I had a dream the other day that seems like exactly the right concept for an SNL sketch. (Meaning, it's initially funny, but would go on too long.) The dream goes like this: my wife and sit down to eat in a fancy restaurant called L 'Idiot (my subconscious pulling a reference from L.A. Story). We're dressed well (yes, this is a dream) and it's all very proper. Then our waiter comes, and it is this guy:
In his typical loud voice, he says "Hi! Billy Mays here for L 'Idiot, the last word in restaurant pretension!" The dream is a bit cloudy in my memory, but he goes on to tell us about the specials. I remember lines like "You get it all! The linguine! The clam sauce! All for just two easy payments of $14.95!" and "But wait! If you order now, you'll also get L 'Idiot's world famous chocolate mousse, absolutely free!".
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Gonzalo Ayuso has posted a second part of his look at scaling Silex (here's part one). In this new article he shows how to use the RouteCollection functionality instead of defining the routes in the DI configuration.
In the post Scaling Silex applications I wanted to organize a one Silex application. In one comment Igor Wiedler recommended us to use RouteCollections instead of define the routes with a Symfony's Dependency Injection Container. Because of that I started to hack a little bit about it and here I show you my outcomes:
He includes example code for creating the application, setting up the main "routes.yml" file with some defaults and two other files for routes in other parts of the site - "api" and "blog". Then he makes the controllers related to these three sections with basic actions catching each of the routes. The source for the entire thing is over on github.


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This is the last week of Women's History Month! If you haven't already, take a look at David Dismore's fascinating day-by-day women's history coverage on the Ms. Blog. And there are still lots of ways to celebrate Women's History Month before it ends.
For one thing, this week is the Feminist Majority Foundation's National Week of Action to Expose Fake Clinics. Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) pose as comprehensive women's health clinics, but instead are typically run by religious organizations intent on dissuading women from exercising their legal right to abortions. To raise awareness of CPCs, plan an event on your campus to expose these fake clinics! Check out the FMF's action kit or their blog for event ideas.
This last week of March also marks the 10th anniversary of the national Back Up Your Birth Control campaign. Back Up Your Birth Control, a project of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, is designed to expand access to emergency contraception. Check out the ways you can take part in the National Day of Action. March 30
Portland, Ore.: Sister Spit brings their tour to my personal favorite place in the whole world, the city of roses. March 28, 7 p.m. @ Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St.
Seattle, Wash.: And if you can't catch Sister Spit in Portland, catch them in the Emerald City. March 30, 7 p.m. @ Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave.
Riverside, Calif.: Join Feminists Unite and Planned Parenthood at the I stand with Planned Parenthood Rally & Acoustic Show to protest the defunding of reproductive health care. Show everyone that health care is a right–bring your signs and instruments! April 2, 1 p.m. @ Back to the Grind, 3575 University Ave.
New Britain, Conn.: Come hear Lilly Ledbetter's incredible story and hear her ideas about how to make equal pay a reality for women. March 30, 1:40 @ Founders, Davidson Hall, Central Connecticut State University
Philadelphia: Celebrate the close of Women's History Month with a rally, tours of "The Unfinished Business of Women's Equality" exhibition and a signing of the Declaration of Equality, plus learn about opportunities to be a part of the Campaign for Equality. March 30, 11 a.m. @ National Constitution Center, 525 Arch Street
Happy end of Women's History Month! I hope you found fun ways to celebrate; I know I did.
If you know of any other feminist events this week, post them in the comments. If you have an upcoming event to feature, email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Barbeque (or just BBQ or Barbie) is a term for any of several related methods of preparing food over an open fire. Barbequeing was first invented by prehistoric humans who lived along I-35 near Kansas City. Anthropologists believe barbequeing became popular because the smoke of a burning Brontosaurus carcass would keep the mosquitoes away for weeks — and mosquitoes were a lot bigger then. Only Interstate 20 in South Carolina is known to be a barbeque corridor in the United States.
Barbequeing, or "Bar-B-Q'ing", appears then to have been lost to civilization throughout Biblical times, except in Israel where it was practiced religiously and Medieval Europe where it was done only to witches. For the rest of the world, the barbeque was rediscovered accidentally by an Persian nomad in the summer of 1241 AD, when the food he was preparing in a pot exploded and was totally consumed by the consequent fire. Seeing this as a reason to gather friends together for a discussion of sultanic politics, virgins in heaven and camel saddles, he called several friends to his tent and repeated the process, after which they hired a woman to clean up.
Since that time, Bar-B-Q has become more and more sophisticated, until today, even Eskimo women can burn large quantities of baby seal meat without any help from the men.
Today, "barbeque grills" are sold in many stores. The modern barbeque grill may have electric lights, hot and/or cold running water, a Jacuzzi attachment (optional) and a beer spigot. The modern barbeque grill is useful for:
- completely burning sausages or meat you put on it
- warming the Jacuzzi, and providing a heated seat
- It is a very effective way to spread smoke (which drives away mosquitoes)
- The device is especially useful for bringing offers to your neighbors.
- Having fun when you're a sadist ;).
Barbeque process[edit]
The barbeque consists of two elements:
- Fire
- Food
Barbeque fire[edit]
A barbeque fire uses both a "fuel" and a "flavor" element, and requires a flammable tinder.
The best fuels for a barbeque fire:
- Thousands upon thousands of wooden matches (at least one of which must be "strike anywhere")
- Charcoal briquets (which are actually a mixture of petrified buffalo dung and cigarette butts)
- Recent editions of the New York Times
The preferred "flavor" elements for a barbeque fire, in order of preference, are:
- Hickory, oak, hemp, or acacia wood
- 3-5 charcoal briquets
- Angelina Jolie's bobby sox
- Recent editions of the New York Times
For flammable tinder, use either aviation fuel, premium grade gasoline, or 120-proof (or stronger) liquor. Charcoal "lighter fluid", although marketed for this purpose, is not suitable for lighting a barbeque fire; in fact, so-called "lighter fluid" is routinely used by the Metropolitan Houston (Texas) fire department to extinguish major oil-refinery fires.
Barbeque food[edit]
Although the preferred food for barbeques varies greatly from region to region, generally the foods used in barbeque cooking fall into one of the following categories:
- meat harvested from a freshly-killed animal, such as a cow, buffalo, or bull elephant
- meat harvested from a frozen and previously killed animal, such as a cow, buffalo, or polar bear
- sausages, which are not considered meat by the Hasidic Jewish community of Poughkeepsie, New Jersey
- breasts and thighs of chicken, turkey, African swallow, or Pamela Anderson
For a vegetarian barbeque, try potatoes, tofu patties, or recent editions of the New York Times. (Some research indicates that soaking the potatoes in salt water for 3 hours prior to grilling will cause the potatoes to not feel any pain from the heat, but this claim is disputed by PETA, Pamela Anderson, and recent editions of the New York Times.)
Barbeque sauces[edit]
Most barbeque chefs recommend using a sauce that contains tomato paste, spices, and either beer, wine, or breast milk from pregnant alligators. Marionating is the act of using a puppet with a hollow body and working urethral system to drip the sauce onto the food for several hours prior to actual cooking.
Also, do not cook the following substances as food:
- Infantile turtles (sometimes referred to as turtlettes),
- Alien genitals (multi-coloured or otherwise),
- Or... pasta.
Or I will come to your house and retile your roof without express written permission, and I'll do a damn crappy job at it, too!
The family barbeque[edit]
The family barbeque is largely a woman's job, as illustrated below. This is because the men are often too busy engaging in watching homo-erotic sports, such as football on television, and therefore cannot help. The exception is if you are TK Pit Bitching.
A typical family barbeque[edit]
- The woman makes the salad
- The woman lays out the table
- The woman prepares all the drinks
- The woman puts the coal on top of the grill of the gas barbeque
- The woman brings the meat to the barbeque
- The woman screams hysterically at the man when the meat is just starting to cook.
- The woman screams hysterically at the man when the meat is burning.
- The woman cuts the meat and distributes it amongst everyone.
- The woman cleans up.
In some cases, depending on social background, the man puts on a sleeveless t-shirt and smacks his woman around when everyone leaves for flirting with his friends during the barbeque. Incidence of this increases when alcohol is used as a flammable tinder.
But don't be fooled! Many people fall into the trap of associating BBQs with Barbecues. They are similar, BUT the meat's puree'd until it's Tofulike in texture, and served with ice-cold Gazpacho. Delicious. BBQs are also used as a men's (less boring) version of "dinner party".
Barbecue Tips[edit]
1. If you have a bottle of beer, you can wear a pink shirt.
2. If you have a giant slab of partially-burnt meat all stuffed in your mouth, you can still wear a pink shirt, as long as you dribble on it.
3. If everyone else is full, and very, VERY drunk, you can wear ridiculously tight hot pink lycra, and drink champagne.
4. If you're barbecuing, you're entitled to most of the meat.
5. NEVER GIVE THE MEAT TO THE DOG! THINK ABOUT IT!! WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT?!?! (This is negated incase of burnt-beyond-tasty food. Give it to the dog and watch it cough char. It's awesome.)
6. BBQ is NOT a substitute for a Barbecue.
Internet References to BBQ[edit]
Used in the statement: OMGWTFBBQ.
Barbecue Illuminati[edit]
A long rumored secret society, reportedly founded in New York's Suffolk County in the early 70s. In addition to bottling and consuming their own secret sauce, members conspire to wreak havoc on non-member 'que-ers and, by various methods, ensuring their failure at the grill. In 2007, a faction of the Illuminati broke off after numerous disputes over the production and sale of Illuminati hats, and the Ash Holes sect was subsequently formed. Described as a hybrid between the Church of Scientology and Blue Man Group, the Illuminati has reported boasted such members as Booby Flay, Dan Krueger (inventor of the boneless rib sandwich made popular by a certain fast food joint), and George Bush Sr.
Influence on penguins[edit]
Barbeques are a very popular cooking device all over the world, except in the hot countries, because they just take out their drumsticks from Costco, leave them in the sun and wait 10 minutes. The most popular place with Barbeques is not the United States of America, as most people would expect. It is actually Antarctica. What with all the Hollywood trends, penguins have now decided that eating raw shrimp is "unCOOL" so now, the entire continent has at least 3 billion barbeques, approximately one million barbeques per penguin.
The barbeque has a great impact on the penguin's life. Ever since the peanderthals popped up (which also raises the question: What came first, the Peanderthal or the egg?), they have been trying to cook their food over fire.
Unfortunately, two problems made this quite difficult to achieve: One, this was back when Antarctica, (then called ROOOAAARRR, because the English language we speak now was not invented until 1943. Until then, everyone simply roared or grunted. Sadly, many people did not catch on. A prime example of one who "missed the boat" was the man name Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor. He was on the reality show "Home Improvement" which set cameras in his family's house and invited people to come inside and laugh at his families misfortunes. This show is not to be confused with a sitcom called "Home Improvement" that ran in the nineties and featured rising astronaut doll Buzz Lightyear (who was soon to become the Santa Clause) as Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor) was undersea and the only time that you can light a fire under sea is when you are an anthropomorphic yellow sponge who lives in an edible, juicy, collective fruit of a tropical, bromeliaceous plant, Ananas comosus, that develops from a spike or head of flowers and is surmounted by a crown of leaves with a domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately who just happens to be a mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about. The anthropormorphic sponge's neighbor is a several ten-armed cephalopods, as of the genera Loligo and Ommastrephes, having a slender body and a pair of rounded or triangular caudal fins and varying in length from 4–6 in. (10–15 cm) to 60–80 ft. (18–24 m) who lives in a representation of a Moai, most commonly found on Easter Island or in Las Vegas. The anthropormorphic sponge's boon companion is a echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; he is a color varying from light crimson to pale reddish purple and wears green men's loose-fitting undershorts with an elastic waistband. The anthropomorphic sponge works at a place where food, as hamburgers, pizza, or fried chicken, that is prepared in quantity by a standardized method and can be dispensed quickly at inexpensive restaurants for eating there or elsewhere. His person who employs or superintends workers is a decapod crustacean of the suborder Brachyura, having the eyes on short stalks and a short, broad, more or less flattened body, the abdomen being small and folded under the thorax, who likes circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits and who has a female child or person in relation to her parents named after a smooth, rounded bead formed within the shells of certain mollusks and composed of the mineral aragonite or calcite in a matrix, deposited in concentric layers as a protective coating around an irritating foreign object: valued as a gem when lustrous and finely colored, and who is of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, esp. as distinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs modified into flippers, and a head that is horizontally flattened.
The other reason why peanderthals could not properly boil their food was because they did not have opposable thumbs. One must have opposable thumbs to to things with thumbs, such as provide a "Thumbs Down", know that you have four additional phalanges, and to drive a motor vehicle. The peanderthals couldn't do any of those, save for the last, which is how they ended up losing the privileges of using all their fingers.
After the peanderthal's misfortune, they started eating their fish raw. Sadly, the peanderthals were exposed to a high amount of salmonella, and since only salmon and people named "Ella" are immune to salmonella, the peanderthals became instinct, save for one little peanderthal, who then grew up to be James Bond.
Centuries after, in 1905, a boy named Frank Epperson left out on his porch a mixture of powdered soda and water that contained a stir stick. That night, temperatures in San Francisco reached record low temperature. When he woke the next morning, he discovered that it had frozen to the stir stick, creating a fruit flavored 'icicle' ... a treat that he named his 'epsicle'. He then waited 18 years before releasing it to the public.
200 years before that, though, a man named Cornelius Butwipe Gayman (which back then basically meant "ManWithAwesomeName HelpfulManThatShouldBeHiredForMuchPayAndLittleWork Happy") found James Bond (the first; remember, he used to be a peanderthal?) collapsed on his magazine stash (an investigation later found that there was a shocking magazine that Cornelius shouldn't have had: it was the risqué edition of Amusing-Times Gentleman and the centrefold featured a lady showing...her ankles.. Cornelius then was mashed into a pulp, had his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken; had his kneecaps split, and his body burned away; And his limbs got all hacked and mangled. (There's more..)His head smashed in and his heart cut out and his liver removed and his bowels unplugged and his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off and his ding-dong split.)
Before Cornelius was punished, he saved James Bond #1 from a life of free alcohol, being paid to gamble and plenty of hot women. One may ask how so? The answer is quite simple, actually. Cornelius went into his Victorian Mansion and brought out a photo of Bella Swan, from the Twilight series. James Bond turned into a penguin and ran as far as he could, to the South Pole, because Cornelius lived in the North Pole. Then a polar bear, just strolling by, spotted the picture of Bella Swan and instantly devoured Cornelius for such insult. Then the polar bear followed the penguin so they could share some Coca-Cola.
Because of the rise in barbeques, businesses in Antarctica specializing in barbeques alone have risen. For example, in Antarctica's capital, Toronto, there are 13 businesses selling barbeques by penguins to penguins from penguins made by a mommy penguin and a daddy penguin, or sometimes two mommies or sometimes two daddies and occasionally, a penguin who's had its feathers changed after the baby penguin has hatched and then the mommy/daddy penguin leaves to marry another mommy or daddy penguin who is more "understanding" of the transvestite penguin.
The growth of the penguin-run businesses have become so popular, that there are other stores for penguins. There are Formal bars and formal dance clubs, Mr. Big and Tall, Moore's and there is even an underwater hotel, made of ice. Of course, the ice is thin and 5 times a week, the giant ice windows in the Ballroom (formal, of course) will burst and it takes 200,000 penguins to rebuild it. Of course, this did supply jobs for the poor penguins during the Great Depression, although many were fired because they could not handle the tools that one must use to sculpt an ice brick. Sadly, those penguins who are able to create ice blocks are either: 1.Imprisoned by a balding bearded man, wearing much fur, in the Tall Tower of Swamp Castle. The father will then wish them to marry against their will, causing them to send a note with a red ribon by method of bow and arrow. Sadly, Danny DeVito in a tuxedo has had to undergo this procedure 20+ times, and he still hasn't gotten the references to Monty Python. The penguins cannot keep Danny away either, now that he knows where they live. (He watched 'Happy Feet" on Pay-Per-View) or 2: Just to darn good, because using an ice hammer to sculpt a block of ice is simply too hard.
Penguins' use of barbeques has a great impact on the media. For example, at 42:23 on the March of The Penguins movie, if you pause it and Zoom in x4, you can clearly see REAL penguins barbequeing.
Also, in the Wallace and Gromit short "The Wrong Trousers", the penguin is wearing a RED rubber glove on his head and stating that he is a chicken. Where'd he get the glove from, eh? Certainly not a hardware store, like Rona. Because there are no Rona's in Antarctica, I think. I'm not quite sure.
So, the penguin must've gotten it from a barbeque, right? And its red, so that means he was wearing it when he was barbequing and accidentally left the glove on the grill instead of the meat! And he got the idea of becoming a chicken from having gone to Costco and having to choose between chicken and lambchops. He immediately chose the lambchops though, because lambs are mean to poor little penguins because lambs kick the penguins, the penguins receive sun when it is not cloudy, the sun grows the food, the ants pick the food, the grasshoppers eat the food and the birds eat the grasshoppers.
So, in conclusion, that is how NOT to use one hour of your life. I'm glad it only took me 60 minutes and not one hour.


text: Hereafter are some freewares available on several platforms, including DEC-alphastations (VMS and unix), RS6000 (and SP2), CRAY YMP and J90, Linux, SGI (various architectures). Mailto: petitjean at itodys.jussieu.fr CSR reads the cartesian coordinates of two molecules, then optimally rotates and translates the molecule 2 onto the molecule 1 to find the maximal common 3D motif. ASV reads the cartesian coordinates of the molecule and the van der Waals radii of the atoms, then performs both Monte-Carlo and analytical calculation of the van der Waals surface and volume. QCM reads the cartesian coordinates of a conformer. It computes both the chiral index CHI and the direct symmetry index DSI. The connex components of molecules are treated separately. The isomorphisms of the graph (onto itself) associated to each connex component are enumerated. RADI reads the cartesian coordinates of the molecule. It extracts the convex hull of the atomic positions, then computes the diameter and the radius of the hull. Three shape coefficients are computed, all related to the convex hull of the set. Michel Petitjean, Email: petitjean at itodys.jussieu.fr ITODYS (CNRS, ESA 7086) ptitjean at ccr.jussieu.fr


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CAMP MARMAL, Afghanistan, Nov. 8, 2011 — The commander of the International Security Assistance Force's Regional Command North condemned yesterday's insurgent suicide attack near the office of a local leader in Afghanistan's Baghlan province.
Despite the holy days of Eid ul Adha, insurgents have recently conducted two suicide attacks on innocent civilians, German Army Maj. Gen. Markus Kneip said.
Yesterday's attack occurred near the office of Mullah Allam, a member of the Loya Jirga. Security forces shot the insurgent as he was attempting to enter the office. The insurgent then blew himself up.
Six Afghan security force members were injured in the attack. ISAF medical teams provided treatment to the injured, which were transported to local medical facilities.
A Nov. 6 insurgent bombing occurred outside a mosque in Baghlan province. These attacks, Kneip said, came just days after Mullah Omar stated in his EID message that the Taliban should preach protection of civilian life, wealth and honor to mujahedin and promote virtue.
"These attacks display the lack of respect for the lives of innocent Afghans," Kneip said. "Instead of celebrating, there are families who are mourning today. Our condolences go out to the families of the innocent victims killed and wounded in these horrible acts."
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Arctic Weather
The Arctic or the area around the North Pole has pretty extreme weather!Ok, so you know the Arctic is cold, right? Did you know that it can be -90°F (-68° C) in the winter in the Arctic? That's SO cold!
Not everywhere is that cold though. In summer, things warm up to 37-54° F (3-12° C). Still not warm enough to go to the pool! In winter things are very cold all over with an average Arctic temperature of -30° F (-34°C).
At least in the winter, it is least cloudy! The Arctic has the most clouds in the springtime. They are usually stratus and stratocumulus clouds.
Arctic places don't get much precipitation. What they do get is usually snow.
The Arctic can be windy! Winds sweep over big areas of land dropping loads of snow when a hill or building is hit. The summer months in the Arctic are the windiest.
Weather in the Arctic can be extreme, but many people have lived there for a long, long time.


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Rapid Barrage
Either of the staff's two powers can be activated as a free action (though the staff may only be activated once per round).
- Magic missile (intensified, quickened, 1 charge, 5 missiles dealing 10 points of damage each)
- Fireball (heightened to 6th, enhanced, quickened, 1 charge, 20d6 damage, DC 19)
Caster Level: 25th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, Craft Epic Staff, Enhance Spell, Heighten Spell, Intensify Spell, Quicken Spell, fireball, magic missile; Market Price: 417,750 gp.
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Hamilton: Not risking paid off
Lewis Hamilton believes opting not to swap to the intermediate tyres is what gave him the advantage in Saturday's Australian GP qualifying…
Lewis Hamilton believes opting not to swap to the intermediate tyres is what gave him the advantage in Saturday's Australian GP qualifying.
With the rain coming down at the start of Q3, Hamilton decided to venture out on the full wet Pirelli tyres. However, not all ten drivers took the same approach as some put on the inters.
With a banker lap in the bag, the drivers headed back into the pits where some changed compounds; Hamilton and Mercedes did not.
The 2008 World Champion went on to clock a 1:44.231 on his final lap, taking pole position by 0.317s ahead of Daniel Ricciardo, who was on the inters.
Hamilton said: "It was difficult to know where the turnover point was for intermediates and full wets. Do you take a risk or not? We decided not to.
"Ricciardo did a good job on the intermediate tyres, so it was a close call between the two tyres. The conditions made it extremely difficult. I hope the weather is better tomorrow for the fans but also for us."
Saturday's running in the rain as Hamilton's first experience of driving his new W05 powered by a 1.6-litre turbocharged V6 engine.
And like many of his rivals, the Brit found it was a lot more difficult to drive than its predecessor.
"It's been an interesting weekend and today it made it much harder with the conditions but I'm really happy for the job the team did," said the Brit.
"These new cars are a lot harder to drive in the wet and it was my first time in the wet. [It was] a serious task and challenge today.
"But for both me and Nico [in third] to be up here is a real great showing for the team and it's obviously great to see Ricciardo up here for his first grand prix with Red Bull."
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I recently started a new game and actually spent a decent amount of time building my characters instead of using the pre-built stuff. However, I completely forgot to give them names so now everybody is named something like "New Character". Of course, this isn't game-breaking in the least but it's annoying (and makes me feel a tad stupid).
Is there any way of changing your character's names after you've started the game (either officially or through some amount of moderate hackery)?


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FATA , Pakistan: A U.S. drone strike has killed an al Qaeda commander in Pakistan's northwest, the second member of the Islamic militant network killed in the area in less than a week, Pakistani intelligence officials and a Taliban militant said on Monday.
Mohammad Ahmed al-Mansoor died on Sunday when drone-launched missiles hit a house in Tabbi village in the North Waziristan tribal area, the main sanctuary for al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the country, the officials and militant said.
Al-Mansoor was a close aide to senior al Qaeda leader Sheik Khalid bin Abdel Rehman al-Hussainan, who was killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan on Thursday, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Al-Hussainan was also known as Abu Zaid al-Kuwaiti.
Covert CIA drone strikes have killed a series of senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in Pakistan's tribal region over the past few years. The attacks are controversial because the secret nature of the program makes it difficult to determine how many civilians are being killed.
Pakistani officials often criticize such strikes as a violation of the country's sovereignty, which has helped make them extremely unpopular in the country. But senior Pakistani officials are known to have cooperated with strikes in the past, and many people believe they still do.
There were conflicting accounts of who died in the strike Sunday along with al-Mansoor.
The intelligence officials said his wife and son were also killed, while the militant said two Punjabi Taliban fighters died with him. The Taliban militant spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being targeted by the government.
Al Qaeda's central leadership in Pakistan has been dealt a series of heavy blows in the past few years, including the U.S. commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad last year. A significant number of senior al Qaeda leaders have also been killed in U.S. drone attacks in the country.
Also Monday, Taliban militants armed with a rocket, hand grenades and automatic weapons attacked a police station in northwestern Pakistan, killing six people, police said.
The attack occurred in the city of Bannu, which serves as a gateway to the North Waziristan tribal area and which has been hit by repeated attacks over the years.
The militants began the attack by firing a rocket at the gate of the police station and tossing hand grenades, triggering a battle with police that last lasted over an hour, said senior police officer Wagar Ahmed.
Three policemen and three civilians were killed in the attack, said Ahmed. The civilians were coming out of a nearby mosque when they were shot by the militants. Eight people were wounded, including three policemen and five civilians.
Three militants were killed during the attack and one escaped.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to The Associated Press from an undisclosed location.
Elsewhere in the country, gunmen attacked a checkpoint manned by paramilitary forces on the outskirts of the southern city of Karachi, killing two soldiers, said police officer Azhar Iqbal. Two policemen were wounded in the attack, he said.
In the eastern city of Lahore, an elderly Swedish woman who was shot and critically wounded a week ago by an unknown assailant was flown home for medical treatment, said police officer Zahoorul Haq Qureshi. The woman, Bargeeta Almby, is in her 70s and was a volunteer at a church in Lahore. She was flown home in an aircraft sent by the Swedish government, Qureshi added.


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The Largest Valley System in the Solar System
News story originally written on August 8, 2001
Scientists have found the largest known valleys in the solar system -- on Mars! These valleys lie under a covering of dust, ash, and lava, but they could still be seen by a satellite that uses lasers to look below the surface of the planet.
These giant valleys were formed as large amounts of water flowed through them, just like the Grand Canyon was formed on Earth. In order to form valleys the size of the ones on Mars, the water flow through them would have been 50,000 times that of the Amazon River!
Sometime in the past when Mars was warmer, there was running water on Mars. Now the water is frozen. But, someday Mars may have oceans and lakes on its surface again.


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The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is seeking applicants for Justice of the Peace in the North Mesa Judicial Precinct. Judge Cecil P. Ash, who has served in that position for six and a half years, is retiring effective September 30, 2019.
Per state law, the appointee, like Judge Ash, must be a Republican who lives in the North Mesa Precinct. You can see the full precinct boundaries here. This person must also be a registered Arizona voter.
The Board of Supervisors will fill the vacancy in the coming weeks. The person selected will run for the office in the 2020 primary and general elections to complete the term, which lasts through 2022.
Applicants should send their letters of interest along with a resume to the Office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, 301 W. Jefferson, 10th Floor, Phoenix, AZ 85003 or email it to firstname.lastname@example.com. All documents filed with the Clerk's Office will become public records. Applicants are subject to a background check. Applications are due no later than Friday, October 11 at 5 pm.


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Key Holder - Morphe Nottingham (37.5 hours) Jobs
About the Job
Morphe was born in 2008 among the artists and influencers in Los Angeles. Finally. A beauty brand created for the creators. For the dreamers. For those looking for killer makeup without killing their wallet. A place where our #MorpheBabe can let their passion and creativity for beauty fly high. We're more than just a brand; we're a ride-or-die fam.
The Keyholder provides exceptional customer service by creating a unique, inviting, entertaining, and educational multi-brand shopping destination for the Morphe babe and demonstrates their artistry skills with clients upon request. In addition, the Keyholder must bring a positive presence, creating a collaborative work environment on the sales floor and provide excellent service to meet and exceed store financial goals. The Keyholder will assume role of Manager on Duty as needed and be responsible for operational task follow through, opening, closing, banking and security of the store.
- Provides the full Morphe customer service experience in store, delivering sales to meet or exceed targets.
- Meets or exceeds all personal goals to positively contribute to the team and the store.
- Provide excellent customer service and product knowledge, offering full service experience and/or simple service depending on customers' needs
- Positive representative of the Morphe brand, always demonstrating professionalism and poise.
- Support promotions, events and launches to deliver the intended experience for customers.
- Consistently elevate own artistry skills and the artistry skills of the team.
- Attends all required trainings and completes educational and developmental tools as assigned.
- Develops knowledge of trends in industry to provide best service possible and share with the squad
- Contributes to a productive and dynamic Morphe squad by connecting with employees, customers, and influencers.
- Act with professionalism and respect in all interactions with customers, co-workers, Manager and business associates.
- Fulfil Manager on Duty responsibilities, including all opening and closing responsibilities, banking responsibilities, managing down time to be productive, maintaining cleanliness standards and always ensuring customer service standards are met and prioritized and the sales floor is a welcoming environment.
- Must adhere to all company policies and procedures. Immediately report any variances to a Manager or the People team.
- Completes opening and closing responsibilities accurately and efficiently and ensures cash handling standards are met and company funds are secured.
- Assists in execution of visual displays, merchandising and marketing standards ensuring the store is consistently replenished.
- Assists in the preparation and completion of accurate physical inventory as assigned.
- Assists with non-sell tasks as assigned by Management and as part of the daily responsibilities.
- Use the POS accurately and train Beauty Artists on POS in addition to other operational tasks.
- Arrives to work on time and consistently follows the Morphe personal appearance guidelines.
- Follows all safety and emergency procedures.
- Identifies potential loss prevention issues.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
- 2 years retail experience, previous sales experience required.
- Excellent customer service, communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to multi-task and build relationships.
- Flexibility and the ability to handle change in a positive manner.
- Cosmetic artistry experience preferred.
- Management experience a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to support business growth and exhibit professional behaviour.
- Have and maintain flexible availability.
- Must have open flexibility to work during peak traffic times including evenings, weekends and holidays.


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Schilling $8 contract for 2008 includes as much as $6 in incentives (not the $2 I mentioned yesterday), including a weight-related clause -- suggested by G38 himself.
I inserted the weigh-in clause in the second round of offers. Given the mistakes I made last winter and into spring training I needed to show them I recognized that, and understood the importance of it. Being overweight and out of shape are two different things. I also was completely broadsided by the fact that your body doesn't act/react the same way as you get older, even after being told that for the first 39 years of my life.(That's a pretty horrible post title, isn't it?)
Kevin Youkilis is only the second first baseman in Red Sox history to win a Gold Glove (George Scott, the real "Boomer", is the other). Much is made of Yook's 1,080 chances without an error, but really, if Yook had made an error or three along the way, would his work at first been any less valuable?
Theo Epstein, on the Mike Lowell negotiations: "We're working at it and hopefully moving the ball forward each day." ... Damn it, Theo, NO football metaphors!!!
Daisuke Matsuzaka became the first Red Sox pitcher since Babe Ruth (Game 4, 1918) to have two RBIs in a World Series game.
Interesting take on the Slappy Opt-out from the Times:
From a bargaining perspective, however, the story up to now shows strong evidence [that] Rodriguez wants to stay a Yankee — albeit after proving his open-market value — and has gone out of his way to make it possible for the Yankees to climb down from their posturing and match any offer.In NYC: The Mets are meeting with Alex Rodriguez. Right now, Wilson Betemit is pencilled in as the Chokers' 3B next year. That will likely change by March, but whoever they get will be a huge downgrade from Mr. McBluelips. ... Jorge Posada says he'll listen to other offers before making any decision re the MFY. Sources say the Chokers are considering offering 3/40, while Dumbo is looking for four years. ... Andy Pettitte turned down his $16 million option for 2008 and he may decide to retire. ... And finally, from CI: "If someone came out twenty years from now and said they released those bugs on purpose, I'd believe it."


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One of the oldest museums in the Mid-West was recently relocated to an elegant new LEED Gold certified structure, garnering accolades from art aficionados and sustainability advocates alike. Kulapat Yantrasast of wHY Architecture designed the new Grand Rapids Art Museum to be as beautiful as the artworks within, placing a premium on public space and ultra-efficient modern design. Situated downtown amid Maya Lin's "Ecliptic" park and Alexander Calder's "Grand Vitesse", the museum is an impressive addition to the renowned architecture of the "sculpture city".
LEED certified museums tend to be a tall order in terms of economics and design, which is one reason why there are so few of them. This is because the modern museum is more cultural complex than singular structure: it fulfills a range of functions through galleries, auditoriums, conference rooms, cafes, and stores. All of these rooms have different energy dynamics which are complicated by the exacting temporal science of archiving and displaying art. Regarding the project, Yantrasast states:
"a museum, especially an art museum, is a very unforgiving type of building because the air inside the building has to be very consistent. It is mostly 75 degrees and 50% humidity. [that range] can sway about five percent, but if it swings more than that the artwork will suffer. Conventional museums expend a lot of energy maintaining that condition."
Remarkably, Yantrasast was able to triple the museum's size to 125,000 square feet while maintaining a stellar environmental footprint. In order to do this, the structure takes advantage of a wealth of cutting-edge sustainable technologies. Climate is controlled by excellent insulation and building materials (20% of which are recycled) and a high-efficiency HVAC that features an "energy recovery wheel" system (as warm air is cycled outside, heat and humidity are transferred to incoming air, regulating temperature). The structure is also designed to receive 70% of its light from natural sources, and water-efficient fixtures compliment an on-site rain and grey water reuse system that reduces water consumption by 20%. This adds up to a structure that is clean, conscionable, and suffused with light – a perfect environment for artistic appreciation.
Via greenlineblog.com